exception of that of Sir
Robert Cotton,'[22] was purchased by Henry, Prince of Wales. At the
Prince's decease in 1612 the books went to augment the old royal library
of England, which was given to the nation in 1757 by King George II. A
curious and interesting inventory of the 'moveables' found at Lumley
Castle after the death of its owner is given in Surtees's _History of
Durham_, vol. ii. pp. 158-163. The goods comprised pictures, sculptures,
'peeces of hangines of arras with golde of the Storie of Troye, Quene
Hester, Cipio and Haniball,' etc., hangings of 'gilte leather,' 'Beddes'
of gold, silver, and silk, splendid chairs, and velvet and Turkey
carpets, and were valued at fourteen hundred and four pounds, seventeen
shillings and eightpence, but no mention is made of any books. Most of
these treasures were sold by auction at the beginning of the nineteenth
century. Among the Royal MSS. preserved in the British Museum is a
translation of Erasmus's _Institutio Principis Christiani_, signed 'Your
lordshippes obedient sone, J. Lumley, 1550.' As Lord Lumley's own father
was put to death in 1537, this was evidently addressed to his
father-in-law, who has written his name Arundel on the first page. Lord
Lumley was a member of the old Society of Antiquaries, and in
conjunction with Dr. Caldwell[23] he founded a surgery lecture in the
Royal College of Physicians, endowing it with forty pounds per annum.

The Lumley family was one of considerable importance and antiquity, and
an amusing account is given by Pennant[24] and Hutchinson[25] of a visit
paid by King James I. to Lumley Castle on the 13th of April 1603. In the
absence of Lord Lumley the King was received by Dr. James, Dean of
Durham, 'who expatiated on the pedigree of their noble host, without
missing a single ancestor, direct or collateral, from Liulph to Lord
Lumley, till the King, wearied with the eternal blazon, interrupted him,
"Oh mon, gang na further; let me digest the knowledge I ha gained, for
on my saul I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley."'

Lord Lumley's first wife was a very learned lady, and several volumes
containing the exercises both of herself and her sister, the Duchess of
Norfolk, are preserved among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum,
having been handed down with the Lumley books. A quarto volume,[26] upon
the first leaf of which is written 'The doinge of my Lady Lumley,
dowghter to my L. Therle of Arundell,' contains Latin translations of
se